Shearing

>>The Sheer Tool.…It's again one of those tools that has a very specific purpose, and very cool once you know how to use it.…The way the Sheer Tool works is, you go over here to the Toolbox, and you can select the Sheer Tool.…You don't see it right away.…It's hiding underneath the Scale Tool.…There it is, the Sheer Tool, and you can tell by its little icon, it's going to bend over or back the objects that you select.…So here's my fast train, and it doesn't look very fast, right now.…

It doesn't look like things are happening very excitingly.…So what I'll do - actually, I forgot to select the train, so I'm going to select the whole thing.…There it is, all selected.…Now I'll go back and choose my Sheer Tool.…And like all the Transformation tools, the first thing to do is to set a point of transformation, a center of transformation.…By default, it's the center of the object.…So I could click right there if I want to, and then everything will sheer around that point.…I find it a little easier with the Sheer Tool to pick a point on one sort of corner of your object, and click there, and that's a little easier.…

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6/10/2005

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